Transcribed Marriage License

TO ANY ONE LEGALLY AUTHORIZED TO SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES:

               This is to authorize you to solemnize the RITE OF MATRIMONY between
       Alfred Jones age 23       and       Ada Green age 25
of your County, agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly in such cases made and provided: Provided, that there is no lawful cause to obstruct the Marriage for which this License is desired; otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any license or authority for you or either of you for the purposes aforesaid, more than if the same had never been prayed or granted.
       Given under my hand at the Clerk's Office in said County this 16 day of April, 1938.

By___________                      J C Prichard, Clerk

                            STATE OF TENNESSEE, DYER COUNTY
Know all Men by these Presents:
That we, Alfred Jones and T. M Larkin
of County of Dyer and State of Tennesse, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of us, jointly and severally, by these presents.
Witness our hands and seals this 16 day of April, 1938

The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That whereas, the above bounden Alfred Jones has this day prayed and obtained a License to marry Ada Green , Now if there is no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage and for which license is desired, then this obligation to be void; otherwise, to remain in full force and virtue in law.                      Attest:
By____________________, D. C.               J C Prichard, Clerk

                            STATE OF TENNESSEE, DYER COUNTY.
CERTIFICATE.
                     I solemnized the RITE OF MATRIMONY between the within named parties on the 16 day of April, 1938              T M Larkin

              Returned on the 16 day of April, 1938

By_____________________, D.C.              J.C. Prichard, Clerk

Note: Ada Green is the daughter of John Frank Green and Ida Schoolfield. It is not known to this researcher who the parents of Alfred were. Ada and Alfred had one child, Alfred, Jr.